Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL

Yank, Kevin

ISBN 10: 0975240218 / ISBN 13: 9780975240212

Published by Sitepoint Pty Ltd, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL
• Publisher: Sitepoint Pty Ltd
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0975240218
• ISBN 13: 9780975240212
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1746872672.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 46764114
• Signed: 5/10/2025 10:24:32 AM
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Synopsis

"Build Your Own Database-Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL" is a practical guide for first-time users of PHP & MySQL that teaches readers by creating a fully working Content Management System, Shopping Cart and other real-world applications. There has been a marked increase in the adoption of PHP, most notably in the beginning to intermediate levels. PHP now boasts over 30% of the server side scripting market (Source: php.weblogs.com). The previous edition sold over 17,000 copies exclusively through Sitepoint.com alone. With the release of PHP 5, SitePoint have updated this bestseller to reflect best practice web development using PHP 5 and MySQL 4. The 3rd Edition includes more code examples and also a new bonus chapter on structured PHP Programming which introduces techniques for organizing real world PHP applications to avoid code duplication and ensure code is manageable and maintainable. The chapter introduces features like include files, user-defined function libraries and constants, which are combined to produce a fully functional access control system suitable for use on any PHP Website.

About the Author

Kevin Yank is the Technical Content Director for SitePoint.com, author of many well received tutorials and articles, and editor of the SitePoint Tech Times, an extremely popular technically-oriented email newsletter for Web Developers.

Before graduating from McGill University in Montreal with a Bachelor of Computer Engineering, Kevin was not only a budding Web Developer himself, but also an active advisor for the Sausage Software Web Development Forums and writer of several practical guides on advanced HTML and JavaScript.